Poet and contributor G. GREENE has just published his second collection of poetry, The Lonely Years—Exploring Grief Through Poetry from Kelsay Books. Greene’s work appeared in Witty Partition, the Ur-journal of Cable Street. He began a poetic journey through grief and survivorship after the death of his wife in 2018.
We are delighted to announce that SAMUEL FARHI – whose work and editorial curation have appeared in these pages – has a first novel, The Sapsuckers, forthcoming from Spuyten Duyvil Press. Updates to come.
MICHAEL HAWLEY’s story “Landfall” appears in the latest issue of Subtropics. His “Stones and Serpents” appeared in the The Wall 2.
In Defiance: 20 Abolitionists You Were Never Taught in School, by Cable Street issue 5 contributor THOMAS WEINER and co-author DR. AMILCAR SHABAZZ, has recently been published by Interlink Books. The book uncovers the untold stories of individuals who risked their lives to fight enslavement, serving as a compelling call for justice and the preservation of history.
Flacofolio is a new collection of microessays by LEONARD SCHWARTZ, with assemblages by HEIDE HATRY. It tells the tale of Flaco, the eagle-owl who escaped from his enclosure at the Central Park Zoo and captivated all of New York City. Cable Street published excerpts from the collection here—and the book is a jewel, now available from its publisher, Spuyten Duyvil. Fly and grab a copy!
AGNES SIODA, a Berlin-based artist whose Portfolios have appeared in Cable Street 2 and the current issue, had recently published a book aimed at children, yet appealing to all ages: Senta und der feuerrote Drache, (Senta and the Ferocious Dragon). It is available via agnes@lmi.net. We look forward to its translation into English, and other languages, especially since in addition to it’s marvelous illustrations, the story’s theme is of a universal, and deeply life-affirming nature.
KAREN GREENSPAN has published an article in Lions Roar, Buddhist Wisdom for Our Time, in which she writes about her journey “to learn the traditional dance of the Tibetan Buddhist Chöd practice of Machig Labdrön. The practice empowers female practitioners in Bhutan, . . . .” https://www.lionsroar.com/dancing-the-dakini-chod-cham-of-machig-labdron/ Greenspan’s article on dance in Bhutan, “A Reason to Dance” was published in Witty Partition Issue 13 here.
HANS AUGUSTAVE’s new film Nwa (Black) won Best Narrative Short DBFF, Denton Black Filmmakers Festival. “Nwa is a candid, emotional, coming-of-age film about Frantz, a first-generation Haitian-American boy, torn by the decision to get the haircut he knows his strict immigrant father would approve of, or a trendy cut connecting him to the Black American culture he’s warned him not to embrace.” Cable Street Issue 6 published Hans Augustave’s short film, I Held Him and an interview with him here.
RILLA ASKEW, a Cable Street contributor, has a new fiction collection, The Hungry and the Haunted, from Arkansas-based publisher Belle Point Press. The book is featured as a Remarkable Read by Hardy Griffin in our current issue. https://bellepointpress.com/collections/books
MARITHELMA COSTA’s new novel La bendición de Rosalía is newly out in Spanish from the Puerto Rico-based Editorial LaCriba. Costa’s contributions to Cable Street include curating two Pocket Anthologies of New York poets writing in Spanish as well as her own fiction.
IRIS APONTE’s novel Borinquen Field was recently published in Spanish by Editoria Educación Emergente. An excerpt of her novel The Happy Death of William Carlos Williams previously appeared in these pages. Marithelma Costa’s critical appreciation of her latest novel can be read here.
NAOKO FUJIMOTO’s new chapbook of translations—09/09 : Nine Japanese Female Poets/Nine Heian Waka—is available from Toad Press. FUJIMOTO published a sample of her translations with visual expressions in Cable Street’s Haiku Anthology. Learn more at the author’s website, Fuji Hub.
IMOGENE PRUITT-SPENCE, artist, photographer, writer, and granddaughter of contributing editor CHRISTOPHER SAWYER-LAUÇANNO devotes her Substack column of July 7 to commenting on his book of poems Ten Meditations on Some Words by Antonin Artaud: https://dirtnapprincess.substack.com/p/artaud-my-grandfather-and-me.
MICHAEL DORGAN recently published an opinion piece in The Mercury News “I respect you, cancer, but you’re killing both of us.” Excerpts from his book No Fight, No Blame: A Journalist’s Life in Martial Arts were published in Cable Street Issue 2.